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SUBMITTER: Brian Storrie
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10785 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Rhee Sung W SW Pokrovskaya Irina D ID Ball Kelly K KK Ling Kenny K Vedanaparti Yajnesh Y Cohen Joshua J Cruz Denzel R D DRD Zhao Oliver S OS Aronova Maria A MA Zhang Guofeng G Kamykowski Jeffrey A JA Leapman Richard D RD Storrie Brian B
Communications biology 20210916 1
Primary hemostasis results in a platelet-rich thrombus that has long been assumed to form a solid plug. Unexpectedly, our 3-dimensional (3D) electron microscopy of mouse jugular vein puncture wounds revealed that the resulting thrombi were structured about localized, nucleated platelet aggregates, pedestals and columns, that produced a vaulted thrombus capped by extravascular platelet adherence. Pedestal and column surfaces were lined by procoagulant platelets. Furthermore, early steps in thromb ...[more]